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...just can't say enough in praise of Kalinoski," coach Loyal Park said. "He caried the team over the hump when we needed...
...American language, and a special form of racism became widespread. Yet to the trappers, the Indian woman made the best wife. She skinned and fleshed his beaver and buffalo hides, sewed and ornamented his clothing, fashioned moccasins and snowshoes for him, and prepared him such delicacies as boiled buffalo hump, boiled unborn calf, and dried moose nose. If she had any drawback, it was galloping garrulity: contrary to stereotype, Indian women were constantly giving off streams of village gossip and household news...
...criminals they pursued for twelve decades, from Jesse James to Willie ("The Actor") Sutton, the Pinkertons seemed to direct the same obsessive passions Melville imputed to Captain Ahab, who was a first-class tracker by any detective's standards: "He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down." Adopting a godlike motto ("We Never Sleep") the Pinkertons did not so much solve cases as play Puritan avenging angels in private duels with the devil...
Even hecklers make their way into the film, shouting "Dump the Hump," as the candidate tries to speak. A younger man encountered the same problem, the sound track says, and there is Teddy Kennedy facing a sea of angry chanting faces at the Common. There's a quick cut to Humphrey who has just the right expression--not angry, but troubled, determined to set communications aright if only given the chance...
...valuable for the rocketeers who send them out of this world. So there was Dr. Wernher von Braun, 56, director of NASA's George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, floating around the cabin of a C-135 jet transport while the pilot flew a precise "over-the-hump" curve to produce 30 seconds or so of weightlessness. Von Braun made twelve of the trips and marveled that the sensation was "exhilarating. You cannot imagine what it is like unless you experience...